xlock+apm suspend -- how?

[<donw@examen.com>]

Short version:
    I'm trying to get xlock to automatically launch whenever my machine
    (a laptop) goes into suspend mode.

Slightly longer version:
    I've been using a symlink in /etc/apm/suspend.d (to a script in 
    /etc/apm/scripts.d) to handle the starting and stopping of xlock; 
    all it really does is check to see if my windowing session is 
    running, if another xlock is already running, and if everything 
    is happy, it 'su -'s to my user account and runs xlock.  If I run
    this script from the console, it seems to run without a hitch.

And the problem:
    For some odd reason, it looks like xlock is being run *after* the 
    system comes out of suspend, rather than before the system drops 
    into a suspended state.  This gives a portion of time where my X 
    desktop is visable, and a single keystroke at this junction will 
    cause xlock to give up and not load.  Adding a delay after the 
    line in the script that runs xlock doesn't help much, and I'm 
    running it backgrounded with 'nohup'.

    It does run, however, so I'm wondering what the problem could be...

Additional details:
    The laptop is a Dell Latitude C600, running kernel 2.4.20.
    I am *not* suspending to disk (too slow).
    I use the Bash shell exclusively.

Thanks-in-advance!

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Don Werve <donw@examen.com> (Unix System Administrator)

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